William Harvey Building
0845 196 4838
geoffrey.amoateng@anglia.ac.uk

Qualifications & Memberships

• MSc Mental Health Interventions
• BEd (Education)
• Diploma (Biology)
• Post Graduate Diploma in Teaching & Learning in Healthcare area.
• Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN)

• Member of the Royal College of Nursing union ( RCN)
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Courses

• Pre and Post-Registration Nursing - Mental Health courses.
• Promoting recovery from mental illness Pre-registration MH Nursing (Dip HE & BSc.)
• People As Individuals (Dip HE & BSc.)
• The Person/Client in Crisis (Dip HE & BSc.)
• Coping with Life events and promoting mental health and adaptation
• Community Care of Clients with Severe and Enduring Mental Illness
• Recent Developments in Forensic Mental Health Care (Workshop)

Outline of career

May 1996 - November 2005 - Worked at Three Bridges Medium Secure Unit, West London Mental Health NHS Trust, both in-patient and Community settings to a senior level (Grade G)
November 2005 to present- Senior Lecturer, Anglia Ruskin University.

Research Interest

Have special interest in the following areas;
Provision of care for mentally disordered offenders in secure settings (Forensic Mental Health Nursing Care); Culture and spirituality in mental nursing care, and Promoting Recovery from mental illness.
I am currently researching the following topics;

1. An exploration of International and Black Minority Ethnic students' Experiences with Teaching, Learning and Assessment approaches in the Faculty of Health and Social Care
2. The Role of Culture in understanding of mental illness and its treatment among Africans with special interest in Ghanaian service users and carers in London.

Selected Publications

Schafer, T., Amoateng, G., & Wrycraft, N., (2009) An exploratory study of GP perceptions of the impact of a primary care counselling service on their practice. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling Vol 37, No 1, February 2009, 1-15